by Laura | Apr 4, 2017
by Melanie Holmes Ellen Condliffe Lagemann wants us to care about men and women who have sold drugs on street corners, committed burglary, and even worse: murder. In Liberating Minds: The Case for College in Prison, she calls upon America to care enough to college...
by Laura | Feb 21, 2017
With this mind blower of a book, be ready to be humbled. Experience awe. Left feeling sorrow, even anger that might fuel you to action. Activist, philosopher and author Derrick Jensen hopes so. With fiery style, Jensen keeps his readers close as he doggedly challenges...
by Laura | Dec 2, 2016
Author Alison Stewart began the development of Junk: Digging Through America’s Love Affair with Stuff in a way that I love to approach book projects. Sparked by an experience in her life, she was left with questions she had a passion to answer. The book reflects her...
by Laura | Oct 5, 2016
Review by Melanie Davis The foster care system receives billions of dollars, yet after five years of dedicated research, author Cris Beam reveals how poorly this system is working. To The End of June: An Intimate Life of American Foster Care shines a focused light on...
by Laura | Sep 22, 2016
In The Selfishness of Others, Kristen Dombek asks some real questions about the “narcissism epidemic.” She wants to get to the bottom of how we got to a time when according to many health professionals, there are “more narcissists today living in the United States...
